Origins: Groves of Boho

Subject: RE: Groves of Boho
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 12 Apr 16 - 12:33 PM

Monea Castle has a tower as part of it's structure, in fact looking at the photographs it seems to have two.


Blue clickly out of sorts again, cut and paste the following.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=monea+tower&biw=1366&bih=628&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjxpKGhwonMAhUKVhoKHUJSCJkQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=_

Subject: RE: Groves of Boho
From: leeneia
Date: 12 Apr 16 - 08:09 PM

Thanks for the link. I enjoyed studying the pictures.

Subject: RE: Groves of Boho
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 13 Apr 16 - 03:37 AM

Irish round towers are unique structures that long predate buildings like the castle at Monea.

Subject: RE: Groves of Boho
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Aug 17 - 03:33 PM

Knockmore means big hill. Knock is hill, more is big. Knockmore is just outside of Derrygonnelly.

Subject: RE: Groves of Boho
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 01:22 PM

Sorry, Leeneia for late reply re pronunciation of Monea (Mun-ay or Mon-ay). I just returned to this thread as I have been chasing up a CD release last year from Hazlett Keers entitled "The Groves of Boho". I'm sure I ordered a physical CD from somebody last year, but can't trace my order now. Digital version is available from the usual sources, but I wanted the CD and booklet.

The stream that runs through my mother's home farm eventually joins the Sillees River that runs through Boho. Sillees is pronounced as it looks, but with a soft "s" at the end, emphasis on the first syllable.

Ross

Subject: RE: Groves of Boho
From: leeneia
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 01:40 PM

Thanks for the pronunciation help, Ross.

Five years after writing down my tune for this, I returned to it. I just can't get any meter to work for the whole song, not 3/4, 4/4, or 6/8. Finally I went to the part where the bird sings "Why leave this happy, happy wood? Come back, come back to Boho", and I wrote Irregular on the sheet music. The rest of the tune alternates between 3/4 and 4/4.

People I've sung it to seem to like it.

Subject: RE: Groves of Boho
From: GUEST,LB
Date: 19 Jan 22 - 07:31 AM

Hello all,

What a great thread, great to see so much information and love for the area.

I was curious if the MIDI files are still working? I can't seem to get them working on my laptop, phone or iPad. Or if anyone has any recordings they are fit to share that would be great. Not an easy melody to find online it seems!

Subject: RE: Groves of Boho
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jan 22 - 09:14 AM

when looking for a place near the border we looked at places in Boho (Bo of course or the words don't scan!).
Sillies (sallies/willows) grow well in wet places & one visit showed us vast areas (Groves?) of Boho covered in floodwater. We didn't go back, but I do remember a lovely old thatched pub called the Linnet, I think?

Subject: RE: Groves of Boho
From: GUEST,jim bainbrige
Date: 20 Jan 22 - 11:51 AM

that was me by the way

Subject: RE: Origins: Groves of Boho
From: leeneia
Date: 21 Jan 22 - 02:31 AM

On April 7, 2016, Joe posted MIDI files of my tune for this in D and G. I can't get them to play either.

Subject: RE: Origins: Groves of Boho
From: leeneia
Date: 21 Jan 22 - 02:46 AM

A belated thanks to Ross Campbell for explaining about the Sillees River. I stuck with the "Murlo's" version because listeners would hear "silly" and get confused.

Some here have complained that they can't find a town called Murlo, but "Murlo's crooning stream" could mean that Murlo was a landowner or tenant farmer with the stream on his place. Murlo could have been a resident who regularly visited or fished the stream, so people thought of it as his. Murlo could even have been an artist who painted the stream.